Echo Park building goes from bland to bold

1933 Echo Park Avenue, a two-story apartment building, was easily one of Echo Park’s most dreary looking buildings. For many years, the windows and doorway were covered up with heavy-duty metal security bars and grates. Then, the bars came off the widows. Now, the front of the building has recently been painted in bands of blue and orange, giving the building a rugby shirt-like appearance. The new color scheme is certainly bold but is it beautiful?

Well, for starters, it’s no longer dreary. Painting over rocks always looks tacky,though. Kind of looks like one of those tents they use for termite fumigation. But what’s up with the doors that look like they came from Fort Knox?

That is not beauty!! Look at those tacky aluminum windows! Haha! What is good though is a building where it’s a color is other than that dreadful beige color on most LA buildings! Why doesn’t LA wake up and create a more colorful palette on architecture as is seen in other Mediterranean climates! Color on buildings would help disguise that dirty scum look on beige buildings like when it hasn’t rained in months.

Not that I want LA to be South Beach, but I’ll take anything over the typical stucco job I’ve grown to loathe in most of this city. What color options are there again? OH right, beige, tan, tannish-beige, brownish tan, dirty beige, and beigey-beige.

Don’t give up! I put in over 25 in two years and lost every one. On #26, I went in without an agent, the seller’s agent was happy to take 6% from the seller (which made her fight for $$me$$), and I ended up with a house. If you do go that route, READ every aspect of the contract and know what you’re getting into. Good luck!

funny the apartment complex next to mine has gone bold as well. they painted one whole side bright orange and then slapped about 5 black boards at the top and painted the fence black. keeping the rest of the building white. it has a certain halloween feel to it. its not to my liking but im sure they’ll find 3 tenants. located across the street from micheltorena school.

I would have gone with a big orange dot in the middle of the rectanglar building. There’s not enough horizontal for the stripe. And I really agree with Quill above, some plants in window boxes and awnings should be next. And that improvment will make this building much more ecological, shading the window glass and having some space for Urban Ag.

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